Dalkey Archive Press
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Chimera
$16.95 Add to cartA National Book Award winner, this bawdy, comic trio of novellas finds John Barth injecting his signature wit into three tales many times told: that of Scheherazade, storyteller of the Thousand and On… [more below]
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Barth, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1628974451
- Language: English
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Flame Trees in May
$16.95 Read moreIn her most experimental work to date, Karla Marrufo Huchim explores universal themes with appreciable specificity: loneliness, family angst, memory loss-from a perspective belonging singularly to a n
- Series: Mexican Literature
- Author: Marrufo, Karla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1628974648
- Language: English
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Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
$16.95 Add to cartIshmael Reed’s classic Neo-HooDoo Western, a classic from the Dalkey catalog, is presented here in a long-awaited republication with a new introduction.
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Reed, Ishmael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 177
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1628973870
- Language: English
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Key
$14.95 Read moreIn An Eochair (The Key), one of M irt n Cadhain’s most Kafkaesque short stories (and one of his longest), J., a ‘paper-keeper, ‘ one of the more junior civil servant positions, accidentally locks hi
- Series: Irish Literature
- Author: Ó. Cadhain, Máirtín
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 19 2015
- ISBN10: 1564784436
- Language: English
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My Husband
$15.95 Add to cartAdulterers, cheats, hypocrites, bad seeds–in My Husband, Rumena Buzarovska turns her wry and razor-sharp gaze on men, and on the lives of the women who suffer them.
In these eleven devastatingly preci
- Series: Macedonian Literature
- Author: Buzarovska, Rumena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1628973455
- Language: English
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Paradiso
$19.95 Add to cartA classic of modern literature, Paradiso was first published in Cuba in 1966 and quickly hailed as a masterpiece by such eminent writers as Julio Cortázar and Mario Vargas Llosa. Written by Cuba’s mo
- Author: Lezama Lima, Jose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: December 03 2005
- ISBN10: 156478228X
- Language: English
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La Batarde
$18.95 Add to cartAn obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La B?arde relates Violette Leduc’s long search for her own i
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Leduc, Violette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1628974575
- Language: English
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Sot-Weed Factor
$24.95 Add to cartThis is Barth’s most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is “one of the most diverting . . . to roam the world
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Barth, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 806
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1628973943
- Language: English
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Bouvard and Pecuchet
$17.95 Read moreAlthough unfinished during his lifetime, Bouvard and P?uchet is now considered one of Flaubert’s greatest masterpieces.
In Flaubert’s own words, the novel is “a kind of encyclopedia made into farce .
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 30 2005
- ISBN10: 1564783936
- Language: English
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Billy & Girl
$15.95 Read moreIn this brilliant, inventive, tragic farce, Deborah Levy creates the ultimate dysfunctional kids, Billy and his sister Girl. Apparently abandoned years ago by their parents, they now live alone somewh… [more below]
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Levy, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1628975032
- Language: English
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True Story: A Trilogy
$15.95 Add to cartTrue Story: A Trilogy gathers together three documentary plays by award-winning playwright and poet Dan O’Brien concerning trauma, both political and personal.
The Body of an American speaks to a momen
- Series: American Literature
- Author: O’Brien, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 162897513X
- Language: English
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Journey to the South
$18.95 Add to cartIn a small village on the southern coast of Crete, the narrator meets a young man who tells him a history of his journey which took him from Prague as far as to the Libyan sea. It is a voyage to uncov… [more below]
- Series: Czech Literature
- Author: Ajvaz, Michal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 598
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1628974443
- Language: English
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A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas
$13.95 Add to cartDrawing on O’Brien’s experience of cancer and of childhood abuse, and on his ongoing collaboration with a war reporter, the four essays in A Story that Happens–first written as craft lectures for the… [more below]
- Author: O’Brien, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1628973838
- Language: English
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Necropolis
$15.95 Add to cartBoris Pahor spent the last fourteen months of World War II as a prisoner and medic in the Nazi camps at Belsen, Harzungen, Dachau, and Natzweiler. His fellow prisoners comprised a veritable microcosm … [more below]
- Series: Slovenian Literature
- Author: Pahor, Boris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 1564786110
- Language: English
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Lines from a Canvas
$15.00 Add to cartLines from a Canvas offers the public one of the best kept secrets in the world of poetry for years, the work of Jacob Miller.
His poems uniquely traverse the cultural territory from Homer to the Grat
- Series: American Literature
- Author: Miller, Jacob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 23 2016
- ISBN10: 1628971371
- Language: English
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Man in the Holocene
$16.95 Add to cartA stunning tour de force, Man in the Holocene constructs a powerful vision of our place in the world by combining the banality of an aging man’s lonely inner life and the objective facts he finds in t… [more below]
- Series: Swiss Literature
- Author: Frisch, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1564784665
- Language: English
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Phosphor in Dreamland
$16.95 Add to cartWildly comic, erotic, and perverse, Rikki Ducornet’s dazzling novel, Phosphor in Dreamland, explores the relationship between power and madness, nature and its exploitation, pornography and art, innoc… [more below]
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Ducornet, Rikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1628974435
- Language: English
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Family of Pascual Duarte
$15.95 Read moreConfined to a prison cell, thrice-murderer Pascual Duarte recounts his journey from a violent childhood to a life of pain and misfortune; juxtaposing tableaus of country poverty against scenes of bare… [more below]
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Cela, Camilo Jose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1628975059
- Language: English
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Marshland
$27.95 Read moreOtohiko Kaga’s Marshland is an epic novel on a Tolstoyan scale, running from the pre-World War II period to the turbulence of 1960s Japan. At forty-nine, Atsuo Yukimori is a humble auto mechanic livin
- Series: Japanese Literature
- Author: Kaga, Otohiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1628974044
- Language: English
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God’s Wife
$16.95 Add to cartAmanda Michalopoulou’s God’s Wife is a deceptive novel: it draws us close with promises of titillating confession and heart-warming intimacy only to send us on a conceptual scavenger hunt that probes
- Series: Greek Literature
- Author: Michalopoulou, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: December 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1628973374
- Language: English
